EEEEEEEEEAAAAKKKKKKK!!!!! Toyota is recalling 870,000 vehicles because their airbags can be accidentally deployed—with explosive force—by spiders.
Early Humans Looked a Lot Like Slade Gorton: Finding a really old head, scientists believe all people derived from a common ancestor—not hella different ancestors—with a “a small braincase, large teeth, and a long face.”
Bob Ferguson Rules: The state’s Democratic AG has forced backers of the No on I-522 campaign to admit who’s bankrolling their effort to hide GMOs in foods. Seriously, if we’d elected that walking bouffant in a suit, Republican Reagan Dunn, I doubt this awesome shit would ever happen.
Don’t Have a Cow, Man: BART’s on strike.
President Schwarzenegger? I put zero stock in this rumor.
Leave It to Lynn Thompson: Covering a press conference yesterday that was led mostly by immigrant women of color—who were denouncing a pro-Ed Murray PAC’s baseless smear about domestic violence—Seattle Times reporter Thompson dinged the women for reading prepared remarks and mispronouncing words. “Some of the advocates appeared to be reading from scripts,” Thompson wrote, even though that’s standard procedure at press conferences and it reeks of Sarah-Palin-style teleprompter attack that I’ve never seen a reporter deploy except as an insult. “One stumbled over the wording and at one point mispronounced the mayor’s name,” Thompson added. The implication seems clear: that these women don’t actually know McGinn and were handed a script. But the women were all leaders of the domestic violence community (Someireh Amirfaiz, Dr. Sutapa Basu, Patricia Hayden, and Maria Batayola), but apparently to Thompson, the important thing was that some of them had accents and mispronounced words.
In Our Era of Exquisite Free Porn, This Is Still a Thing? An air marshal working in Nashville, Tennessee, has been arrested for allegedly used his, er, position to take photos up women’s skirts.
This Is Also Still a Thing? Two convicted murders managed to escape from Florida prison using forged judges signatures.
Sack of Dead Fetus: “A suspected teen shoplifter was busted Thursday after she was found to be carrying a dead fetus in a plastic bag while swiping lingerie at a midtown Victoria’s Secret, cops said.” This story is heartbreaking.